{"id":357,"date":"2008-12-06T02:29:12","date_gmt":"2008-12-06T06:29:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/clay.blogdns.net\/?p=357"},"modified":"2022-04-16T16:51:54","modified_gmt":"2022-04-16T20:51:54","slug":"sony-still-hijacking-your-machine-now-with-securom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/claymccauley.info\/index.php\/2008\/12\/06\/sony-still-hijacking-your-machine-now-with-securom\/","title":{"rendered":"Sony &#8211; still hijacking your machine, now with SecuROM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;d think after the <a href=\"\/index.php\/2005\/11\/11\/sonys-copy-protection-classified-as-a-threat-by-antivirus-firms\/\">huge fiasco<\/a> over Sony&#8217;s use of First 4 Internet&#8217;s XCP product several years ago, sony would have changed course a bit.&nbsp; Instead Sony decided to bring their DRM efforts in house and out popped SecuROM.&nbsp; Again, they use the same rootkit tactics to secretly install their software.&nbsp; This makes SecuROM difficult to detect and even more difficult to remove.&nbsp; Sony <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eff.org\/cases\/sony-bmg-litigation-info#132\">was sued, and settled<\/a> in the previous case(s).&nbsp; There are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edge-online.com\/features\/ea-securom-suits-moving-forward\">several suits pending against EA<\/a> Games for use of the SecuROM DRM software.&nbsp; I&#8217;m thinking it&#8217;s only a matter of time before Sony gets served.&nbsp; When will they learn?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;d think after the huge fiasco over Sony&#8217;s use of First 4 Internet&#8217;s XCP product several years ago, sony would have changed course a bit.&nbsp; Instead Sony decided to bring their DRM efforts in house and out popped SecuROM.&nbsp; Again, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/claymccauley.info\/index.php\/2008\/12\/06\/sony-still-hijacking-your-machine-now-with-securom\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,2],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gaming","category-tech","tag-drm","tag-ea","tag-sony"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/claymccauley.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/claymccauley.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/claymccauley.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/claymccauley.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/claymccauley.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=357"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/claymccauley.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1031,"href":"https:\/\/claymccauley.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357\/revisions\/1031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/claymccauley.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/claymccauley.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/claymccauley.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}